From: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca (Cdn-Firearms Digest) To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Subject: Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #820 Reply-To: cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Sender: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Errors-To: owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Precedence: normal owner-cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Cdn-Firearms Digest Monday, July 15 2013 Volume 15 : Number 820 In this issue: "B.C. gangsters use criminal connections from Alberta to ... 'Prosecutorial Tyrant' Violated Zimmerman's Rights. Prosecutors Should Be 'Ashamed' for 'Kowtowing to Hateful ... Celebs react to George Zimmerman verdict Jennifer Lopez received millions to perform for 'thugs,' ... Angela B. Corey, Florida State Prosecutor ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Jul 2013 23:26:48 -0600 From: Larry James Fillo Subject: "B.C. gangsters use criminal connections from Alberta to ... ... do their ‘dirty work’ A gang war between the United Nations gang and the Fresh Off the Boat Killers. This is a testimony to Canada's immigration policy. If the citizenship criteria was amended to being a continuous resident for 7 or 10 years before being eligible, along with the new deportation for criminal convictions the government could actually cut back foreign gangs. Without it, they're just blowing smoke and will only affect a periphery. As for gun control, it obviously doesn't hamper real gangsters at all. But it sure raises their status and safety by giving them a monopoly on the use of firearms. This must be what the Premiers Conferences are about when they promote interprovincial trade. ========================================================= B.C. gangsters use criminal connections from Alberta to do their ‘dirty work’ Two Calgary men named as co-conspirators in plot to kill Bacon brothers By Kim Bolan, Vancouver Sun July 13, 2013 United Nations gang founder Clayton Roueche was sentenced to 30 years in December, 2009 for being an international drug kingpin. Roueche has had Alberta gangsters come to B.C. to carry out UN tasks. After Jonathan Barber was shot to death in May 2008, alleged killer Troy Tran admitted to an associate that he mistakenly believed he hit Jamie Bacon because all “white guys” look the same. Tran, a Calgary gangster linked to the Fresh Off the Boat Killers (FK), was regularly in B.C. in the company of United Nations leader Clay Roueche and others in the gang behind a lengthy conspiracy to murder the Bacon brothers and their Red Scorpion associates. While Tran has not been charged in the Barber murder, both he and FK gangster Billy Ly were listed as unindicted co-conspirators in B.C. Supreme Court this week in both in the slaying of Barber and the plot to kill B.C.’s most notorious gangster siblings. And the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team says the case is still open despite the guilty pleas July 8 of five gangsters in the conspiracy, suggesting more charges may be coming. Police experts say the connections between the B.C.-based UN and the Calgary gang run so deep that Alberta gangsters were willing to kill for Roueche in this province. Sgt. Jennifer Pound, of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team, said Friday that “police believe there was a clear link between the Fresh Off the Boat Killers and the UN gang during the period of the indictment” in the Bacon plot. Abbotsford Police Det. Andrew Wooding, who worked on the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit probe into the UN that began in 2006, said that in the early days of the case, investigators watched as Roueche met with numerous Calgary FK gangsters, including Ly, Tran and the late Mark Kim, who was gunned down on New Year’s Eve 2007. “It became clear from our surveillance that these guys were actually working with Roueche and taking direction from Roueche,” Wooding said. “At the time, we believed the FK were adopted by the UN and they were benefiting by getting better access to cocaine through the UN supply lines and the UN were bringing that sort of oversight and organization and the threat of a larger group that are looking after you.” Not only have Ly and Tran been implicated in the murder of Barber, an innocent stereo installer, but others in the FK are linked to other shootings in both Vancouver and Chilliwack, The Vancouver Sun has learned. Wooding confirmed that both Ly and Tran were with Roueche and two others in February 2007 when the group was targeted in a shooting after leaving a downtown Vancouver nightclub around 5 a.m. One of the FK members was paralyzed after being shot in the head. Also that February, Chilliwack resident Clayton Eheler, identified in court documents this week as a Bacon associate at the time, was shot near his house as he drove with a woman and a young child. He survived. Wooding said that minutes later Chilliwack RCMP pulled over Roueche’s van, driven by another UN member with a Calgary FK gangster inside. The assault rifle used in the shooting was never located, though a Glock was found in a secret compartment in the vehicle. No charges were ever laid. Later that year when the FK’s Mark Kim was shot to death in Calgary, Roueche arranged for another member of the gang wounded the same night to get treatment in B.C. He also made sure he was at Kim’s funeral in Calgary a few days later. Tran also agreed in 2007 to forfeit to the B.C. government more than $240,000 in suspected drug profits found in his vehicle when he was stopped in Vancouver 18 months earlier. The agreed statement of facts entered in B.C. Supreme Court as part of the UN guilty pleas says that Roueche first turned to the FK for help killing the Bacons “in late 2007/early 2008.” The statement also details some of the efforts of Ly, Tran and the UN to kill their enemies. Between January and May 2008, both Tran and Ly were with UN conspirators as they scouted out the Mission house of Bacon associate Dennis Karbovanec hoping to shoot him. Roueche was captured on wiretap talking about Tran and Ly as the “C-town guys” and said they were more willing to proceed with public shootings. “The C-town guys, they’re f—king anywhere, anytime. Boom, boom, boom,” said Roueche, who is serving a 30-year U.S. sentence for drug smuggling and money laundering. Hours before Barber was shot to death on Kingsway after picking up a Bacon vehicle to install speakers, Tran and Ly were involved in another Burnaby shooting. They were in one UN vehicle that was shot at by another car full of UN members who mistook their allies’ car for a vehicle belonging to their rivals. Ly was hit in the shoulder. Even then, he didn’t abandon the mission on behalf of his UN brethren. He was still hunting for the Bacons with Barzan Tilli-Choli outside a Lil Wayne concert at GM Place in January 2009. A wiretap captured Ly giving advice to Tilli-Choli to “unload the whole thing” — a reference to emptying the clip if he came upon the Bacons’ rented limo. Police stopped the UN conspirators before they could act. Both Tran and Ly remain in Calgary. Ly was arrested last month at Vancouver airport on aggravated assault charges out of Calgary. CFSEU Sgt. Lindsey Houghton said Friday that “it should come as no surprise to people that gangsters here in B.C. are using criminal connections from outside the province to do their dirty work. “It happens regularly and you even see B.C. gangsters going to other parts of Canada to do dirty work,” he said. CFSEU anti-gang officers have been at the Calgary Stampede this month “because we know B.C. gangsters go there to not only holiday, but to do their business,” Houghton said. “So we are there working with our Alberta counterparts to find them and keep track of them and hopefully prevent any violence from happening there,” he said. http://www.vancouversun.com/news/gangsters+Alberta+criminal+connections+their+dirty+work/8654389/story.html ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 07:54:09 -0600 From: "Joe Gingrich" Subject: 'Prosecutorial Tyrant' Violated Zimmerman's Rights. http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Dershowitz-Zimmerman-Prosecutorial-Misconduct/2013/07/14/id/514957?sl&promo_code2AB-1 Dershowitz to Newsmax: 'Prosecutorial Tyrant' Violated Zimmerman's Rights Sunday, 14 Jul 2013 05:21 PM By David A. Patten Famed defense lawyer and Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz is calling for a federal investigation into civil rights violations stemming from the George Zimmerman case - but he says the probe should focus on prosecutorial misconduct rather than on allegations of racial profiling and bias. Speaking Sunday in an exclusive Newsmax interview, Dershowitz said the jury's finding that Zimmerman was not guilty of either second-degree murder or manslaughter was "the right verdict." He added, "There was reasonable doubt all over the place." Immediately after the verdict was announced, however, the NAACP and outspoken activist Al Sharpton called on the Justice Department to launch a federal civil-rights probe, charging that the case had been racially tainted. Dershowitz is calling for a civil-rights probe as well. But he contends the person whose rights were violated was Zimmerman. "I think there were violations of civil rights and civil liberties - by the prosecutor," said the criminal-law expert. "The prosecutor sent this case to a judge, and willfully, deliberately, and in my view criminally withheld exculpatory evidence." He added: "They denied the judge the right to see pictures that showed Zimmerman with his nose broken and his head bashed in. The prosecution should be investigated for civil rights violations, and civil liberty violations." Dershowitz said the second-degree murder case should never have gone to trial considering the flimsy evidence against Zimmerman. He also does not believe it was strong enough to be submitted to a jury for deliberation. "If the judge had any courage in applying the law, she never would have allowed the case to go to the jury," Dershowitz told Newsmax. "She should have entered a verdict based on reasonable doubt." Dershowitz singled out special prosecutor Angela Corey for "disciplinary action." He criticized the state's probable-cause affidavit for not including evidence indicating Zimmerman could have been acting in self-defense, including graphic images of blood streaming from his scalp and nose. "The prosecutor had in her possession photographs that would definitely show a judge that this was not an appropriate case for second-degree murder," the Harvard professor told Newsmax. "She deliberately withheld and suppressed those photographs, refused to show them to the judge, got the judge to rule erroneously this was a second-degree murder case. "That violated a whole range of ethical, professional, and legal obligations that prosecutors have. Moreover, they withheld other evidence in the course of the pretrial and trial proceedings, as has been documented by the defense team," he said. Dershowitz described the prosecution's attempt late in the case to add a third-degree murder charge by asserting the shooting constituted child abuse "so professionally irresponsible as to warrant sanctions and investigations." Dershowitz said various legal and bar association organizations could investigate how the state handled the prosecution. He added it could warrant a federal investigation as well. "I think people's rights have been violated," the famed attorney told Newsmax, "but it was the rights of the defendant and the defense team, by utterly unprofessional, irresponsible, and in my view criminal actions by the prosecutor," he said. Dershowitz went on to express his opinion that Corey is "basically a prosecutorial tyrant, and well known for that in Florida." Dershowitz and Corey have had run-ins before. She contacted Harvard Law School demanding that he be disciplined for voicing his opinion that she had improperly omitted information that could have exonerated Zimmerman. "Of course, the Harvard Law School laughed at [her complaint]," he said. As of Sunday evening Newsmax had not received a response to a request for Corey's reaction to Dershowitz's remarks. Even after the verdict was rendered Saturday, Corey continued to defend her decision to charge Zimmerman with second-degree murder. "We charge what we believe we can prove," she told the media. "That's why we charged second-degree murder. We truly believe that the mindset of George Zimmerman and the words that he used and the reason he was out doing what he was doing fit the bill for second-degree murder." Corey said the case "has never been about race," but also said there was "no doubt" young Trayvon Martin had been "profiled to be a criminal." Although Zimmerman was cleared of all charges, Corey told the media: "This case was about boundaries and George Zimmerman exceeded those boundaries. Dershowitz tells Newsmax he expects there will probably be a lawsuit filed against Zimmerman for civil damages. He said civil-damage cases require a lower standard of proof that a wrong has been committed, and Zimmerman would not be able to avoid testifying. But Dershowitz adds: "I don't know where you'll find a lawyer who is prepared to bring it, because it has very little chance of success." Asked if he expects Attorney General Eric Holder's Justice Department to launch a civil-rights investigation targeting Zimmerman, Dershowitz stated: "I don't think that's going to happen, and if it happens, I don't think it would succeed." Dershowitz told Newsmax the prosecutor overcharged the case, and never should have sought a second-degree murder conviction. "The theory was clearly to charge second-degree murder, and hope for a compromise verdict of manslaughter," he said. Dershowitz was careful to add that the tragic killing of Trayvon Martin exposes a need to reform Florida laws. He believes the Stand Your Ground law should be changed because it "elevates macho over the need to preserve life." He also stated that racial profiling "has to be addressed." "I think these vigilante community groups have to be disarmed," he said. "I don't think Zimmerman should have been allowed to have a gun. "He should have been walking around with a walkie-talkie and calling the police," he said. "It's the job of the police to investigate and apprehend suspects based on their professional training." But the need for future legal reforms had no bearing on the Zimmerman trial, Dershowitz said, and insisted the case should never have reached a jury. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:02:41 -0600 From: "Joe Gingrich" Subject: Prosecutors Should Be 'Ashamed' for 'Kowtowing to Hateful ... ...Anti-justice Pressures' http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Ted-Nugent-Zimmerman-Verdict/2013/07/14/id/514952?sl&promo_code2AB-1 Ted Nugent: Prosecutors Should Be 'Ashamed' for 'Kowtowing to Hateful Anti-justice Pressures' Sunday, 14 Jul 2013 04:00 PM By Paul Scicchitano Conservative rocker Ted Nugent lashed out at Florida prosecutors for "kowtowing to the hateful anti-justice racist pressures" and prosecuting former neighborhood watch captain George Zimmerman in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin. Zimmerman was found not guilty late Saturday by an all-woman Florida jury in a decision that has been criticized by other celebrities, who insist that the 17-year-old unarmed Martin was a victim of racial profiling. "Smart and honest America rejoices that the jury got it right," Nugent told Newsmax on Sunday. "This was the purest case of self-defense you could have ever asked for." Nugent, a Newsmax contributor who sits on the board of the National Rifle Association, added that prosecutors mishandled the case from the start. "The entire prosecutorial team should be ashamed of themselves and disbarred for kowtowing to the hateful anti-justice racist pressures," he asserted. Before a special prosecutor assigned to the case ordered Zimmerman's arrest, thousands of protesters gathered in Sanford, Miami, New York and elsewhere - many of them wearing hoodies like the one Martin had on the night he died. They also carried Skittles and a can of iced tea, items Martin had in his pocket. President Barack Obama weighed in, saying that if he had a son, "he'd look like Trayvon." Zimmerman wasn't arrested for 44 days after the Feb. 26, 2012, shooting as Sanford, Fla. police insisted that the state's Stand Your Ground law on self-defense prohibited them from bringing charges. Florida gives people wide latitude to use deadly force if they fear death or bodily harm. Defense attorneys have insisted that the case was classic self-defense, claiming Martin knocked Zimmerman down and was slamming his head against the concrete sidewalk when Zimmerman fired his gun. Nugent, an ardent Second Amendment advocate, agrees that Martin is to blame for the scuffle that resulted in his death in the gated community near Orlando, where he was staying, and where Zimmerman was a neighborhood watch volunteer. "The ultimate lesson for anyone paying attention is 'be sure you educate your children to not attack people for no reason whatsoever,'" Nugent added. AP contributed to this article. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:11:07 -0600 From: "Joe Gingrich" Subject: Celebs react to George Zimmerman verdict http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/celebs_react_to_george_zimmerman_MgfQk0yd4SN8542270W7eI Celebs react to George Zimmerman verdict By DAN GOOD Last Updated: 8:02 AM, July 15, 2013 Celebrities took to social media Saturday, expressing shock, outrage and sadness that neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the death of unarmed teen Trayvon Martin. Some Twitter users - such as Russell Simmons, Sean "Diddy" Combs and Solange Knowles - posted a solid, black square for their Twitter avatar, a showing of support for the victim. "Say a prayer for Trayvon Martin's family," Simmons wrote. Donald Trump wasn't surprised by the verdict. "Zimmerman is no angel but the lack of evidence and the concept of self-defense, especially in Florida law, gave the jury little other choice," he wrote. New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz wrote an anti-Zimmerman Tweet but quickly deleted it. "Thoroughly confused," he wrote. "Zimmerman doesn't last a year before the hood catches up to him." Cruz later apologized http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/tweet_giant_mistake_rH34kuvgbjLvosignIz5sN for the Tweet. Rapper Talib Kweli expressed hope that Martin's family will receive justice. "The way this Zimmerman case divides us shows how far we still have to go as a country," he wrote. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:28:25 -0600 From: "Joe Gingrich" Subject: Jennifer Lopez received millions to perform for 'thugs,' ... ...'cronies,' Human Rights Foundation claims http://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/2013/07/15/jennifer-lopez-received-millions-to-perform-for-thugs-cronies-human-rights/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/jennifer_lopez_accepted_rights_perform_jRaG6NxrWCwy4DlC2mbg3N?utm_sourceSFnewyorkpost&utm_mediumSFnewyorkpost By DAN GOOD Last Updated: 7:41 AM, July 15, 2013 How low, J.Lo? Jennifer Lopez has received more than $10 million for singing to despots and moguls from eastern Europe and Russia, according to research by the nonprofit Human Rights Foundation. http://humanrightsfoundation.org/Jennifer-Lopez-HRF-uncovers-more-paid-performances-for-dictators-ignorance-greed-12-07-2013.php Lopez's performances emerged following a birthday serenade http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/jenny_from_the_bloc_qoE5arTCEFm4zFzRxWK8GN for Turkmenistan's authoritarian ruler, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov, last month. HRF highlights four of Lopez's other questionable business dealings: - In July 2011, Lopez was paid $1 million by Uzbek industrialist Azam Aslanov to perform at the wedding of his son - In September 2012, Lopez was booked by officials in Azerbaijan to perform at a FIFA soccer tournament, and negotiated a contract for a music festival - In October 2012, Lopez performed in Belarus, a dictatorship - In November 2012, Lopez traveled to Russia to sing for Alexander Yolkin, a bureaucrat accused of corruption Following Lopez's June 29 performance in Turkmenistan - in which she was paid a reported $1.5 million - her spokesman said she regretted the incident and had no knowledge of human-rights issues surrounding Berdymukhamedov, a repressive leader accused of imprisoning and torturing critics. http://www.amnesty.org/en/for-media/press-releases/turkmenistan-continuing-failure-fulfil-promises-20090212 HRF president Thor Halvorssen says Lopez and her managers have misled fans. "J.Lo has repeatedly mingled with and entertained some of the world's worst thugs and their cronies," Halvorssen said in a statement. "This is not about ignorance, it's about greed." Lopez's representatives have not responded to HRF's claims. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2013 08:42:29 -0600 From: "Joe Gingrich" Subject: Angela B. Corey, Florida State Prosecutor Excerpt Angela B. Corey , http://www.ask.com/wiki/Angela_Corey Angela B. Corey (born October 31, 1954) is an American attorney currently serving as the State Attorney in Florida's Fourth Judicial Circuit Court, which includes Duval, Nassau and Clay counties. The first woman to hold the position, she was elected in 2008.[1] On March 22, 2012, Florida Governor Rick Scott announced that she would be the newly assigned State Attorney investigating the shooting death of Trayvon Martin, replacing State Attorney Norm Wolfinger.[2] Corey was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida, where she attended Englewood High School. Corey is of Arabic (Syrian) descent.[3] After graduation, she majored in marketing at Florida State University before she decided to try a legal career. After receiving her Juris Doctor degree at the University of Florida's Levin College of Law, she did legal research while preparing for the Florida bar examination, then spent 18 months with Howell & Howell, PA (Trial attorneys).[4] She later became board certified in criminal trial law.[4] She was hired by Ed Austin in 1981 during his tenure as State Attorney from 1975 to 1991, and remained an Assistant State Attorney after Harry Shorstein was appointed by Governor Lawton Chiles in 1991.[5] During her 26 years as a prosecutor, she tried several hundred cases, which included 54 homicides.[6] In 1996, her primary responsibility became homicide prosecutions, but she also supervised lawyers in the Felony division. Shorstein changed Corey's work assignment in 2005 from director of the Gun Crime Unit to director of the County Court, which handles misdemeanors. In that position, she trained newly hired lawyers to be prosecutors. She previously served as Juvenile division supervisor.[6] Corey made the decision to run for the office of State Attorney in 2006. After her candidacy became known, her working relationship with Shorstein became difficult. He terminated her employment in November 2006.[6] Afterwards, she was hired by John Tanner, State Attorney for the Seventh Judicial Circuit, to perform the same job functions she did in Jacksonville, working homicide cases in St. Johns County.[4][7] The following day, Shorstein called a news conference and announced that he would retire at the end of his current term and not run for re-election in 2008.[8] In the following election, Shorstein supported his chief assistant, Jay Plotkin. On August 26, 2008, Corey defeated Plotkin with more than 64% of the votes cast.[9] Upon taking office, Corey terminated 10 assistant state attorneys, over half of the investigators, and 48 support employees.[10][11][12] In 2010, the Florida Times-Union reported that Corey sent 230 juvenile felony cases to adult court in 2009. This amounted to twice the number of juvenile felony cases placed in adult court in the years prior to Corey becoming State Attorney.[13] Cristian Fernandez case [edit] In 2011 Corey's office oversaw a case in which 12-year-old Cristian Fernandez was accused of killing his two-year-old brother. Corey sought and received a grand jury indictment of Fernandez on charges of homicide and aggravated child abuse, and decided to try him as an adult.[14] This move, which made Fernandez the youngest person ever to face a murder charge in Jacksonville's history, drew criticism and protests to send the case to juvenile court instead,[15] but Corey held that the juvenile system was inadequate to handle a crime of this magnitude.[16] Corey stated she did not intend for Fernandez to stand trial or serve a life sentence, but would rather accept a plea deal.[17] Fernandez pleaded guilty to manslaughter in February 2013 and was sentenced to detention in a juvenile facility until his 19th birthday.[18] Trayvon Martin case [edit] On March 22, 2012, Florida governor Rick Scott appointed Angela Corey as Special Prosecutor to investigate the killing of Trayvon Martin by George Zimmerman. On the evening of February 26, 2012 in Sanford, Florida, George Zimmerman, a 28 year-old neighborhood watch volunteer armed with a 9mm Kel-Tec pistol, shot to death Trayvon Martin, an unarmed 17 year-old, in a gated community. A few hours after the killing, the Sanford Police Department determined that there was no "probable cause" to arrest George Zimmerman, who claimed that he acted in self-defense against the unarmed teenager who was walking back to the home of his father's fiance' after purchasing a can of iced tea and a bag of Skittles at a local convenience store. Zimmerman told police that Martin was the aggressor and photos of Zimmerman the night of the incident show him with a bloodied, broken nose amongst other injuries.[19] The decision by Sanford Police Chief Bill Lee and Seminole County State Attorney Norm Wolfinger not to arrest and charge Zimmerman with a crime triggered outrage fueled by social media including a petition on Change.org calling for the prosecution of George Zimmerman which garnered over 2.2 million signatures, the largest in Change.org's history.[20] Following growing protests, including some 30,000 people in Sanford, Florida alone, as well as media coverage and engagement of the FBI, both police chief Bill Lee and state attorney Norm Wolfinger resigned from the investigation and state attorney Angela Corey took over. The case has fueled a national debate over racial profiling, gun control, institutional racism in law enforcement agencies, and the role of ALEC (American Legislative Exchange Council) in pushing for pro-gun laws like Florida's "Stand Your Ground" bill. On April 11, 2012, Corey charged George Zimmerman with murder in the second degree. Corey held a globally broadcast press conference to explain her decision. She stated, "I can tell you we did not come to this decision lightly. This case is like a lot of the difficult cases we have handled for years here in our circuit. And we made this decision in the same manner. Let me emphasize that we do not prosecute by public pressure or by petition. We prosecute based on the facts of any given case, as well as the laws of the state of Florida." When asked by a reporter about the issue of race and justice in the case, Corey stated, "Those of us in law enforcement are committed to justice for every race, every gender, every person, of any persuasion whatsoever. They are our victims. We only know one category as prosecutors, and that's a V. It's not a B, it's not a W, it's not an H. It's V, for 'victim'. That's who we work tirelessly for."[21] Corey's decision to charge Zimmerman was praised by supporters of the Justice for Trayvon movement across the country. Natalie Jackson, a Martin family attorney, stated, "It's actually a very brave charge of Angela Corey, and it really shows that she conducted an independent, impartial and fair investigation in this case... She could have easily charged this as a manslaughter, to try to appease everyone, and she didn't. She did what prosecutors do. She charged it to the hilt".[22] On the other hand, Corey was criticized as "irresponsible and reckless" by Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard legal scholar and attorney who served on O.J. Simpson's defense team, for filing a probable cause affidavit that he claims was too thin for a 2nd-degree murder charge; Dershowitz predicted that it would be thrown out by a judge.[23] On April 12, 2012, Seminole County Judge Mark Herr found the affidavit legally sufficient to establish probable cause and ordered Zimmerman to appear for his arraignment on May 29, 2012. [24] CNN legal analyst Sunny Hostin stated, "I suspect that there is some evidence we just don't know about, because no prosecutor in a high-profile case wants to walk into court and not be able to prove each and every count beyond a reasonable doubt".[22] Some critics, including Dershowitz, believe that Corey, an elected official, treated her press conference as a sort of campaigning opportunity. A Reuters article also indicates that some of Zimmerman's neighbors who claimed they saw signs of injury on Zimmerman the day after the shooting "said they spoke to Sanford police and the FBI in their investigations but did not recall speaking to the office of special prosecutor Angela Corey".[25] On the other hand, US attorney and legal analyst Kendall Coffey referred to Corey's presentation as "masterful" and that she made "a very compelling statement about her commitment to victims... So, if you were scoring that press conference, I give it an A plus".[26] In response to his harsh criticism, Dershowitz claims Corey called Harvard Law School and, "threatened to sue the institution, get me disciplined by the Bar, and made accusations of libel and slander".[27] On July 2, 2013, Corey was indicted by a Citizen grand jury for allegedly falsifying the arrest warrant and criminal complaint that led to second degree murder charges being brought against George Zimmerman. The indictment accuses Corey of intentionally withholding exculpatory photographic evidence of the injuries to George Zimmerman's head in her application for the arrest warrant.[28] Marissa Alexander case [edit] In May 2012, Corey prosecuted 31-year-old Marissa Alexander and obtained a mandatory minimum sentence of 20 years in prison. Alexander had a restraining order issued against her ex husband at the time and, during the day of the incident, had returned to their old home to collect clothes and some possessions thinking he was not there. Her ex husband was there, with their children, and they began to argue. After the argument became heated, Marissa Alexander returned to her car, picked up her firearm, and returned inside the house where she threatened him with the handgun before firing a warning shot into the roof. She was charged with reckless endangerment of children and threatening with a deadly weapon. Despite being offered a 3 year sentence and later a probational sentence with time served, Alexander chose to attempt a SYG defence at trial[29]. She was found guilty and according to Floridas gun laws (where 10 years can be added for committing a crime while carrying a firearm, with an added 10 years for discharging a firearm during a crime) was sentenced to 20 years.[30] Ronald Thompson case [edit] In 2009, Ronald Thompson, a 65-year old Army veteran fired two shots into the ground to scare off teenagers who were demanding entry into his friend's house in Keystone Heights, Florida.[31] Corey prosecuted Thompson for aggravated assault, and after he refused a plea agreement with a three-year prison sentence, won a conviction that would carry a mandatory 20-year sentence under Florida's 10-20-Life statute. The trial judge, Fourth Circuit Judge John Skinner called the 20-year sentence "a crime in itself" and declared the 10-20-Life statute unconstitutional. Skinner gave Thompson three years instead.[31] Angela Corey appealed the 3-year sentence and won, sending Thompson to prison for 20 years.[31] In June 2012, Fourth Circuit Judge Don Lester granted Thompson a new trial, ruling that the jury instructions had been flawed in his original trial regarding the justifiable use of deadly or non-deadly force given the circumstances of the case.[32] Thompson has been freed and awaits a decision by Angela Corey's office on a new trial. Teaching [edit] Since the 1990s, Corey has taught legal concepts at a number of schools, including the University of North Florida, Florida State College at Jacksonville and the Florida Police Corps. Topics range from interrogation techniques to search and seizure to courtroom demeanor.[5] Due to her extensive homicide experience, she receives training requests from law enforcement agencies all over the United States.[4] Awards [edit] The Florida Council on Crime and Delinquency gave her their Criminal Justice Distinguished Award; the Florida Department of Corrections honored her as a Role Model for Women in the Area of Criminal Justice award; the Mayor's Victim Assistance Advisory Council bestowed the Judicial Victim Advocate Award; and Corey received the Distinguished Service Award from the office where she's now the boss.[4] ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V15 #820 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator email: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)